The four night engineering shutdown of the the 3.5m scheduled for next week (1/21-24, inclusive) is canceled. The work planned for this shutdown has either already been accomplished during the extended shutdown which ended last night or cannot be undertaken as planned because preparatory work was disrupted by the unanticipated extension of that shutdown. Thus, 8 half nights of bright time are newly available for science programs starting on Tuesday, 21 Jan. However, this time will NOT be allocated via our usual procedures for OPEN time due to the short period available. Rather, I have already allocated these half nights on an institutional basis via a random lottery (with "entries" proportional to the standard institutional fractional shares). These allocations are shown below. 1/21 A: NM B: UW 1/22 A: UC B: JH 1/23 A: UC B: PU 1/24 A: NM B: UW The scheduler for each concerned institution should email Bruce, Gretchen and me ASAP to specify which existing or new program will use the time assigned to their institution. Individual users/PIs should not contact me or the site directly about this time, if possible, but should work through their scheduler. Nevertheless, this message is being posted to apo35-general to get the word out as fast as possible. This newly released time will be accounted as EN time, not charged to institutions, so there is no "penalty" for making less than optimal use (due to short notice) of the time. If a new (not already included in the 1Q1997 schedule) program is assigned this time, the scheduler should supply its description on the standard template. If a scheduler is unavailable during the immediate future, I suggest that the TAC designate someone else to handle this task. User's committee members, to whom this message is copied, might take responsibility in absence of the usual scheduler. Ed Turner APO APO APO APO APO Apache Point Observatory 3.5m APO APO APO APO APO This is message 116 in the apo35-general archive. You can find APO the archive on http://www.astro.princeton.edu/APO/apo35-general/INDEX.html APO To join/leave the list, send mail to apo35-request@astro.princeton.edu APO To post a message, mail it to apo35-general@astro.princeton.edu APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO